Thanksgiving Nabe!

First...pick yourself up off the floor and check your vitals. No you aren't dead. I really did put up two nonvideo updates up in one week. I don't know either.

So we had a Thanksgiving party last night for our Japanese friends. We had Nabe which is kind of a soup where you can add anything to it. Mostly veggies and meat. But other things pop up too. Also some of us made American things. There was sweet potato pie, pumpkin cupcakes, peanut butter cookies, and I made mac & cheese and cornbread.

I thought I'd do some pictures to tell the story.



Now this is most of the people that came. AC one of our interns was kind enough to sacrifice her place in the picture to take it. Things will go down hill from here.


I like really big comfy pants. Especially when they are $4 XXXL scrubs from a thrift store in Colorado Springs.

Sometimes it's wise to go in the kitchen and appear like you are doing work. I did this twice just to be safe.


This is something we did some this past summer. For the sake of a name I'll call it flapping. Also Josh likes to stick his head in pictures.


This may be the most perfect flapping picture ever. I meant look. I'm hideous. And this is Josh's sister visiting us for a few weeks.


I just recently watched Snow White. But did I learn? Nope. I still greedily go after apples given to me by old hags.


Ok so talking to everyone seems to have its draw backs. Here Rei is ignoring me =(

Ok here are good ol normal smiles. Me with our two interns (sort of) and some Japanese.


Hope you thought this was semi interesting and had a great Thanksgiving.
Remember anytime is a good time to give Thanks to God =)

One Month!

Ok so I cheated there. Really the only thing one month means is that it has been that long since I've done entries on this blog. (But I have changed the design twice since then =) I have a video on the shelf that will go up middle of December. It has to premiere at Central Park Baptist in Decatur, AL first.

The last few weeks have been busy to the max. Lots of things going on in ministry and I've been thinking a lot about the future.


So today I went to Burger King with a lot of Christian English teachers here. I wore a BK crown all the way home. I only noticed one extreme stare. Not bad considering the train was pretty full, but then again I was playing my DS, so I wasn't paying much attention. (Trust me...that's a crown on my head.)

I've had lots of chances to share the Gospel this month which has been very exciting. The good ol Chronicles of Narnia has been a great reference point.


Tonkatsu is a great meal. And you can talk about Jesus while eating. (Unless you stuff all your cabbage in your mouth at once, which of course I did.)


I also went to a fabulous retreat with a bunch of Christian Enlgish teachers here in Japan. It was great fellowship and time to study the book of Daniel together. (And people say I can't have a normal face in a picture...) If you can't find me, I'm front and center baby. (It's because I have a hat on and you can't see my head. I understand.)

That's all for now. And yes Mallory I did this literally moments after reading your comment on my last video =).